Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for World Economics
No 1847:
Establishing a Sustainable Development Goal for Oceans and Coasts to Face the Challenges of our Future Ocean
Martin Visbeck, Ulrike Kronfeld-Goharani, Barbara Neumann, Wilfried Rickels, Jörn Schmidt and Erik van Doorn
Abstract: Oceans regulate our climate, provide us with natural
resources such as food, materials, substances, and energy and are essential
for international trade, recreational, and cultural activities. Free access
to and availability of ocean resources and services, together with human
development, have put strong pressures on marine ecosystems, ranging from
overfishing and reckless resource extraction to various channels of
careless pollution. International cooperation and negotiations are required
to protect the marine environment and use marine resources in a way that
the needs of future generations will be met. For that purpose, developing
and agreeing on a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Oceans and Coasts
could be an essential element for sustainable ocean management. The SDGs
will build upon the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and replace them by
2015. Even though ensuring environmental sustainability is one of the eight
MDG goals, the ocean is not explicitly included. Furthermore, the creation
of a comprehensive underlying set of oceanic sustainability indicators
would help assessing the current status of marine systems, diagnose
on-going trends, and provide information for forward-locking and
sustainable ocean governance
Keywords: sustainable development, ocean, sustainability indicators; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: Q56,; Q57,; Q58; (follow links to similar papers)
22 pages, June 2013
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